Great Power Loneliness: Reflections on the 160th Bergedorf Roundtable

... than statelessness, because only with a monopoly on violence can order be maintained at a given piece of land. This is why the Westphalian system is certainly here to stay. An amazing majority of both Asian and European participants were explicit about ... ... away their neighbors? Is it at all possible not to fall into this trap? This was a question often asked on the sidelines of the Bergedorf Roundtable regarding Russia and the post-Soviet space. Perhaps trust was the recurring concept that surfaced in this ...